Feminine Law: Freud, Free Speech, and the Voice of Desire

ISBN-13: 9780367103385 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 330 str.

Jill Gentile;Michael Macrone

Opis

Feminine Law: Freud, Free Speech, and the Voice of Desire explores the conjunction between psychoanalysis and democracy, in particular their shared commitments to free speech. In the process, it demonstrates how lawful constraints enable an embodied space or "gap" for the potentially disruptive but also liberating and novel flow of desire and its symbols. This space, intuited by the First Amendment as it is by Freud's free association, enables personal and collective sovereignty. By naming a "feminine law," we mark the primacy a space between the conceivable and the inconceivable, between knowledge and mystery. What do political free speech and psychoanalytic free association have in common, besides the word "free"? And what do Sigmund Freud and Justice Louis Brandeis share besides a world between two great wars? How is the female body a neglected key to understanding the conditions and contradictions of free discourse? Drs. Jill Gentile and Michael Macrone take up these questions, and more, in their wide-ranging, often passionate exploration of the hidden legacy of Freud and the Founding Fathers.

Spis treści

About the Authors , Preface , Introduction , The space between , The fundamental rule: freedom in psychoanalysis , The paradox of freedom and the first amendment , What is special about speech? , The polis, analysis, and excluded voices , Repression , Free speech? For whom? , Facilitating speech , Hate speech, survival, love , Enshrined ambiguity: drawing lines between speech and action , On having no thoughts: freedom in the context of feminine space , Metaphors of space , Phallic fantasy and vaginal primacy , Laws of lack and feminine law , Naming the vagina: on the feminine dimension of truth , Clinical interlude: the body announces itself , Free speech on the playground of desire , Coda: homeland security and the secure home base

O autorze

Jill Gentile